Conclusion

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Abstract The book concludes by outlining four new avenues for historical research. First, it calls for abandoning the pietist mythologies surrounding the import of Martin Luther. It then proposes embedding future studies of religious reformation within the framework of a long fifteenth century. The third section notes the international dissemination of Gilbert Burnet’s scholarship and its influence upon the development of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff’s Lutheran historiography. The book ends by dispensing with the idea of “Laudian” opposition to the English Reformation. Ambivalent analyses of Tudor religious history actually began in the early Stuart period, and due to their popularity, their influenced extended well into the eighteenth century.